russian this is are generally no undervalued and is a sad if russian government realizes the potential russian economy will be capital out it get building floor and those who come here east will make a lot of money and that i think is understood that your projects. global pressures will take him a toll on the most to his other negative because this monday looks more and more likely what the author has on the my says i he says you can see entrenched in the read news events which include russia's top ten lend p s p going public the bank will reportedly of up to thirty percent of which says in most london by. raising around a half a billion dollars it follows a similar move by russia's top that a spat by whose offer was twice oversubscribed now coming up next here i must say we have got the rolling wave of onto merican protests with crude he's the director of complex form and they were.

i was up to some surrounding the arab spring has been replaced by worries about the arab fall as a wave of anti western protests and violence sweep across the muslim world. but for one former british spy in the recent events brings to mind unheeded lessons from the past in his thirty years of british government service alastair crook has operated in trouble spots all across the globe from helping them with fighters in afghanistan against the soviets to working with rebel political groups in northern ireland cambodia and colombia as a former special envoy to the middle east he has brokered a number of cease fires between israel and the palestinian movements fatah and hamas he now serves as the director of the conflicts forum in beirut where r.t. set down with him for an exclusive interview thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us but is the wave of recent violence the anti-american a wave of protests across the middle east do you see that as a coordinated effort or or perhaps just

a reaction to what's going on on the ground it seems to me that what happened in libya was well planned well conceived i mean very well planned. and with may not something that happened just out of the blue and it coincided of course with the anniversary of nine eleven. and seems to be more serious i don't think that necessarily suggests that everything else that this that occurred during this period. was therefore coordinated or well designed or or or well planned and what it did touch was a real latent sense of anger at what people see as the continuing aggression as they see their tradition for games culture against their way of being. in this region by western states the recent events the sudden outbreak of silence has been in libya itself in the the very seats of will keep

americans or a new new era marriage this outbreak will cause. the west cumulatively to begin to question and start the process which they need to do which is really to reassess what actually is going on it's not the awakening people thought it's not simply a popular impulse of the oppressed against the a precious it's far more than that and what we are seeing is the overlay of the dynamics here is the gulf states saudi arabia or. other gulf states that are trying to create a sunni bloc in the west of islam as they tried to create the salafist sunni bloc in the east and succeeded no it's the there and it's causing huge turmoil and huge internal conflict within the reach of referring to the killing of

the u.s. ambassador in libya us secretary of state hillary clinton our mark how could this happen in a country that we helped liberate what are the u.s. foreign policy makers missing when it comes to their supports our interfering in countries where that complicated stance towards the west indeed i think it is causing a real sense of anxiety and a sense of shock in the united states widely because this whole narrative that somehow the awakening was going away was reflecting and you know much of that was simply based on this rather press. narrative that was promoted by many mainstream western press that look they're using twitter and facebook therefore it must be western in its orientation well of course. you'll find the salafist groups are seeing facebook and twitter not necessarily to promote western values but i think

they gave it the sense that somehow this was flowing in the west direction and i think this is come as a big wake up call to to the western states for the moment we see a tacit if you like alliance between radical elements in the united states in bringing down assad and bringing down gaddafi but when that's finished where will their anger where will. their objective turn it will turn precisely on israel and america. living i've seen for twenty five years people think they're using the salafist as sort of simple pious people who don't understand politics for their end only to find the salafist use them for their ends and i fear that this is how they will find that it will turn on them and will bite them just as it did twenty five to thirty years ago but what lessons has the us failed to learn when it comes to its experience in afghanistan and how does that relate to what's going on

right now i remember in eighty seven going and talking to the americans about it and saying you know you need to really understand the big differences between these groups that are taking part in this alliance put together and you have to understand some have credibility and real roots within the community but others do not at all quite different and the americans and the senator i remember at the time turned to me and said listen i was to thank you for the advice and mourning it's about certain groups in afghanistan but look i just want to tell you they're the ones that really kick communist ass and so we looked away didn't want to know what was happening we prefer not to look because it was so popular domestically with president reagan with mr thought it was going down well nowhere in the way kicking gadhafi sat where. came president assad that is a popular sport in the west and good domestically so we don't look who are these

groups in syria who were the groups in libya what really owe their objective or their objectives truly to bring about as some in the west imagine a simply a more liberal society a more democratic and easy breathing society of course not just as twenty five thirty years ago people didn't want to hear it was unpopular to say anything so it's been extremely unpopular here so are you saying that the west miscalculated chose the wrong alliances perhaps i think that they miscalculate totally what was happening they chose they created to merit it for themselves it was a constructed narrative that really all of the initial awakening which was popular and had real popular impulse in it was somehow a vindication of european values of american values and they misread this totally

it was not it was in fact when you heard that it was a protest against injustice in iniquity it was a protest against neo liberalism it was a protest against the absolute support of the west against for israel and for. its policies against the palestinians that may not have been at the forefront of all of the climate but the reason that these dictators like mubarak had been so unpopular was precisely because he was the instrument of the west the instrument of suppression of the presidency and that it was all was really behind the protests that took place so it was not a little splinter of western values it was a reaction and i think the recent violence we've seen against. western embassies not just american western. play on the line symbolically the limits of western

influence in this region this is pushback against their attempt to shape and mold the so-called arab awakening for their own purpose to install their own people their own successors for their own interests in this area but when it comes to syria how do you see the conflict there playing out is peace at all possible at this point or haply surpassed that opportunity i don't think until now we've had a window there's not really been a real window for negotiations because the west has not wanted. the opposition to seriously negotiate except on a complete collapse. of president assad and in the syrian system i think. there may be a window arising in the near future and i do hope that the west will instead of ridiculing and belittling russia's attempts to try and

a negotiated outcome. supported because russia plays a crucial if there is ever to be a negotiation between the two parties will have to be guaranteed to have to be guarantees for the opposition for who's going to give the guard the un. west coast only russia can really play the crucial role in resulting i'm sorry but a u.n. negotiate the u.n. has no standing and no legitimacy in syria amongst either thought at this time and are you worried about the ongoing violence in syria spilling over here into lebanon and potentially fracturing the society here of course everyone is worried and it's already has had effect here in lebanon it is a polaroid. the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in

conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is resulted in. skirmishes that have happened in beirut and in in the south. we see reflections of this taking place and lebanon the is of course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict but so was jordan and so is iraq and we are seeing the same effect also taking place so it's affecting the whole region and if there is if it continues and of course if the money in the weapons continue to be poured into syria it will of course continue for a certain extent. no government can stop two or three people and car bombs does continue the tensions will increase but they may explode outside in fact i think in many cases. at this stage it's the states outside that are more vulnerable the neighbors of syria that could be said to be more vulnerable than syria itself

to call for gratian and civil war israel remains a surprisingly untouched it would seem at least honest on the surface by the rise of radical islam do you expect that to continue and how do you see this playing out i think at the moment it's quite true that the palestinian issue is almost obscured hardly even on the agenda. but of course i don't believe that this will persist i believe that the palestinian issue has been so crucial to the self identity of so many states whether it's egypt whether it's syria itself that when things settle down the palestinian issue will of course reemerge and of course israel is not unaffected it may not be feeling the effects now. but look i mean. what's happened has been as dramatic a change of south africa experience all those years ago at the time of the

implosion of the soviet union suddenly. israel is now surrounded in egypt perhaps soon in jordan and elsewhere by a very different region from the one in which. it previously existed thank you. would be soon which brightened. all of our song from finest impressions. from start on t.v. dot com. download the

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government on foreign countries that barely need aid rather than benefit caps on. the latest news coming up next with the un and it looks like the and of the road has arrived for one of the greatest boxers of his generation indeed it does and when you hear the name. think two brothers well that could be just in the ring from now on to explain. thanks for joining us this is sports today plenty head over the next ten minutes think looting stories embry. big to fail w.b.c. heavyweight boxing champion vitaly klitschko makes a strong start he's already fought his last. weekend to remember

brandt snedeker wins the p.g.a. tour championship claiming with the. armed uprising and million dollars. on sticky wicket a ball died for their loss there were twenty twenty cricket score as the defending world champions go down to india by nine. one half of the greatest heavyweight boxing jewel in recent years looks like he set to bring down the curtain on his illustrious career vitaly klitschko on monday stating quote i don't intend to fight anymore leaving younger brother vladimir to carry the torch but tully also reiterating other press conference in the nets that politics in this new crane is work is focused. the forty one year old retained his w.b.c. world heavyweight title earlier this month defeating manuel char in moscow via a fourth round tactical knockout to previously already retired wants to injury in two thousand and five only to announce his return two years later his overall

record stands at forty five wins. to russian football. domestic and european aspirations suffered a massive blow brazilian international set to miss perhaps the entire season after suffering a serious knee injury and sunday's three one win over rough stuff the twenty two year old turning his a.c.l. on separate springs to two other needs ligaments in the eighty fifth minute of the home victory the london olympic silver medalist will now. treatment in germany sponsored jose manuel jurado also surfer to knock in the game and will be like the . mom and sport a three two loss against barcelona and their champions league group not lost the red white stick on celtic in the next european cup adventure on october second. former england football captain john terry has called time on his international career the chelsea skipper informing his country's manager roy hodgson of his decision in a telephone call on sunday evening the thirty one year old is currently in the

process of defending a football association charge of using racist language against q.p.r. defender entente ferdinand cherry was cleared of racially abusing ferdinand courts in july the f.a.'s decision to pursue charges against him no mixed position as an england player on tenable seventy eight times for his nation was initially made captain in two thousand and six. let's talk golf for american brandt snedeker has every reason to smile today after winning the p.g.a. tour championship with that fed ex cup over the weekend the american showing no signs of nerves as he concluded run for on sunday three birdies on the back nine taking all the drama of a final day which was laced with possibilities it's a timely boost for snedeker head of the ryder cup which starts on friday the thirty one year old finishing three strokes clear of english and just in rows was enough for him to program a ten million dollar prize for also paving the fed ex cup world number one marco

rubio meanwhile finished nine shots off the pace with tiger woods one stroke in front of. a complete break in one of you know i knew it'd be a tough day and every time something bad happened under something good was going to happen i saw him going into my mind and all went right and i don't need to and so that's just one of the very think i went right. to move to the ice where the new n.h.l. arrivals are already making their presence very much felt in the kontinental hockey league the much between titleholders scarse and petersburg taking center stage on sunday the class essentially pitched as a battle between superstars alexander ovechkin and. here is remind cost rich with more. they gave a shell is widely considered to be secondary in popularity to the n.h.l. but with the lockout in north america already in effect that argument seems to be no longer an issue because some of the world's best players are now strutting their stuff right here in the continental. alex of the skins returned to his home in

alamo school from n.h.l. the washington capitals was marked by two points in its many games but the new jersey devils in the a couple cheat on the other hand the match against obesity became his cage and a very successful one too as scott st petersburg outscored the muscovites by three books to one and all family and all the friends here and those rates of playing from the home crowd to know that people here they're enjoying the watching hockey especially those reiver yanks you know to top teams play against each other and i think it's all fun to build the battle for a place in the guard called playoffs is still months away but that you can couple chook that supermodel and other looks out and h l r's are ensuring top attendance at various cage hillary nets from seven countries and you should be up most i'm very happy that players like alex ovechkin decided to come and i hope that he will shine which just like in the n.h.l.'s i'm glad that he opened the scoring tourney

today and how does he see in the rest about zero zero helpless when the tide which is what well at the skins did on with certainly have been and if you look forward to the season but capitalizing on opportunities will probably become the priority in the immediate future though it will take him some time to adjust but that's been already knows what needs to be done such that success. i can feel the trust from my teammates on the coaching staff both were showing combinational and attractive playing as deep as what it's coring is our we have one we needed seven on the previous match and one today are still high so we need to find out gold score three or four and four for homophobia they see their houses. so because the n.h.l. and its players union continued to draw sticks over cash north america is now missing out on top notch i guess. their loss is now russia and other occasional countries game and even more hillary's are now seeking to the continental the

remark cos we're already. let's move on wearing men's preparations for the super eight stage of the twenty twenty cricket world cup could hardly have been worse the reaming champions of the short game recording their lowest ever t twenty score in a ninety run defeat to india both sides already secured their place in the super eights making this much somewhat of a dead rubber barber and cap issue approach that will be pleased with what he saw in india reaching one hundred seventy four in their twenty overs in replying then struggled with india spinners and were skilled all right for eighty yard to bouncing in particular to the fourth figures of four for twelve. now russia's national cross-country run how successfully concluded the annual event this year attracting a record one million participants and eighty cities michel to chant go was at the moscow leg of the race for us. it's one of the oldest sports and one of the

simplest since it was included in the first modern olympic games back in agent ninety six cross-country running has barely changed and why should it in a compass is everything that's needed in sport strength stamina fitness and competition but to name a few but today's nationwide event is also about uniting a nation. designed to unite the nation friends family and friends of support and even those when the long active flank have come down to support the cause we're all around to give an example to people some running and i'm not only about strength it's also beautiful and no one has been run and usually that many prominent figures in athletes were among the one point two million people who don't they're running in roughly eighty cities across the country and just outside moscow russia's minister of sport italy would call was on hand to officially open the race and also paltalk in a rather symbolic run with fellow colleagues. ultimately everyone who was taking

part today is a winner there's no need to overdo it everyone should be picking the distance that suits their stamina and that's why i chose to run only five hundred metres but another pleasant factor was seeing so many youngsters willing to come out on a dreary sunday morning to take in the fresh air open space and party atmosphere. that will look like a very interesting spring. board sport as best we can i myself do love supporting it because of that's why games. the event will no doubt continue to be a success in coming years with russia determined to further promote a healthy lifestyle well it probably won't rival the world's biggest nationwide cross country event with was held recently in the philippines attracting over four million people it's still the biggest sporting event in russia and judging by the turnout today it's proof that people here definitely do approve of a healthy lifestyle as to why. not go really does.

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